dissever
Example Sentences
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Like a white dove, the soul hovered for a moment above this body, of which the exhausted materials were about to dissever.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
Just before this attack, Hooker had decided to interpose more force between the wings of the rebel army, in order to permanently dissever Jackson from the main body.
From Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Abner Doubleday
You attempt to live your life on one side only, to dissever that which was made for unity, and calamity comes to crush you.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan
Death does not dissever love among friends, 161.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
Secrecy and guilt go so perpetually together, that it is almost difficult for the mind to dissever them.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 2
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 1
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